Books like Fire at Midnight by Lisa Marie Wilkinson

In "Dragonfly in Amber," Diana Gabaldon transports readers across time to 18th‑century Scotland and France, following Claire Randall’s return with her daughter Brianna to uncover family secrets tied to the Jacobite uprising.

A fast-paced historical romance set in early America, featuring the legendary Natty Bumppo and a love story set against the backdrop of the French and Indian War.

A dark New England mansion, the House of the Seven Gables, casts an ancestral curse over the Pyncheon family, revealing secrets, mysterious deaths, and a complex mix of gothic, historical, and moral themes.

A historical romance set in 16th century England, featuring Lorna Doone, a young woman who is kidnapped and becomes a fugitive during the Monmouth Rebellion.

When a novice abbess named Tara is captured by Viking raiders, she is forced into marriage with chieftain Rorik. Their journey takes them from northern fjords to the Black Sea as they fight war, betrayal, and cultural clash.

When Danielle Shaw is kidnapped by pirates and rescued by American Captain Travis Radbourne, her path to freedom turns into a fiery romance amid wartime peril.

Five American mothers travel to France after World War I to visit the graves of their sons, forming a pilgrimage that reshapes their lives and bonds them in unexpected ways.

Twelve-year‑old Arabella ‘Bel’ Horden wrestles with guilt over a fire that killed an army deserter, while her cousin Nathaniel ‘Nat’ Wilson vows revenge after his twin is wrongfully hanged. In 17th‑century Northumberland, love and vengeance collide amid a second Scots invasion.

Marianne Morris disguises herself as a boy to join the Royal Navy in 1803, determined to find her husband who has enlisted as a ship’s carpenter, amid the Napoleonic Wars.

During the American Revolutionary War, Carlisle Kincaid, a vessel of untouchable virtue, resists the advances of rugged adventurer Chase Lancaster, whose protective instinct is challenged by love and loyalty.

After the murder of a prominent London jeweler, Lord Kit Coleridge is suspected. Determined to clear his name, he becomes entangled with the mysterious widow Norah Rutherford, leading to a perilous tale of deception and love.

American southwest, 1874. As a drunken half-breed drifter, Morgan feels he has no reason to live. That is until a wealthy heiress, Carolyn, finds him wounded in a back alley. On the run from an arranged marriage, she takes him to his home to heal, as well as hide from her father. At her urging, Morgan agrees to accompany her from Galveston to Ogallala. But what is only supposed to be a job turns into something more as he finds himself falling for the runaway bride. Their mutual desire ignites on the journey. Determined to make Carolyn his, Morgan refuses to let any man, white or Indian, get in his way. And when outside forces try to drive them apart, it only increases their determination to be together forever.

A runaway bride embarks on a wild journey to find a new life in the Wild West.

Detective Jon Kent meets radio personality Tracy Michaels in an arson investigation and finds himself caught in a web of passion and danger.

In medieval Scotland, the sudden death of the young queen throws the throne into chaos, while two prominent men, John Balliol and Robert Bruce, vie for succession under the watchful eye of England’s Edward I.

After a bitter divorce, Lily Morgan and her former husband, the sharp‑witted lawyer Daniel Walker, reunite in Shivaree, Georgia, to hunt a town killer—only to find that their new partnership kindles a passion neither expected.

Simon Cynster has finally found his match in Portia Ashford, but their passionate affair turns deadly when a shocking crime is committed. Will Simon’s strength protect his lover from becoming the next target?

Katerina, a fierce Cossack, seeks vengeance against marauders who ruined her village and stole her prized white horses, while an alluring Mongol prince aids her in reclaiming her people and destiny.

In seventeenth‑century Dorset, Dorcas Campion learns her unknown father’s secret—four enchanted seals that promise wealth and power. Pursued by a reluctant suitor, she must follow a perilous path to reunite with her first love and unlock her legacy.

Summer Redding thought the blindingly handsome jock who'd loved and left her years ago had died in the Washington massacre. She grieved for her lost golden boy as the rest of the country mourned their dead, until she comes home to find a very alive Jack Delvaux waiting for her with a devastating secret that turns her life upside down. No longer the carefree man he was in his youth, this Jack is dark, hard and dangerous a fifteen-year veteran of the CIA hungry for answers and hungry for her. The rich, good-looking charmer who broke her heart once before would have been easy to resist, but this man, this powerful man? Summer needs him, and he knows it. When Jack's mission uncovers evidence of government involvement in the massacre and plans for another attack he's primed for revenge. But he has more than vengeance to live for now, and when Summer's life is threatened, it's nearly Jack's undoing. Someone taking shots at his woman? That's dead man walking.

In the sultry streets of 19th‑century New Orleans, a vengeful aristocrat seeks revenge on a young heiress, only to be drawn into an irresistible, passionate love that turns his quest for humiliation into a tangled affair of desire and redemption.